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Posted: **Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:57 am**

21 of those, but I shall be complaining about the non-inclusion of St Leonard's Sports and Social Club in Stafford.

Posted: **Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:03 am**

captain.riot wrote:I thought it might trigger some debate about what's "key" and what isn't. Agree with CQ about Cargo/ Forum though and suitably embarassed to find out that Nynex and MEN are one in the same - particularly as I have been in "both" venues. Spose it's a bit like Crystal Palace and Charlton Athletic circa 1988. I can be sure about some that I haven't done and sure about plenty that I have but I'm unsure about a few of them. I've been asked to leave four of them is all can say with much certainty.

i've only been ejected from 2 of them, the first time for being sick in the ladies' toilets at Brixton Academy in the middle of a Dylan gig, and the second (coinciding with one of the captain's withdrawals) when i was invited to withdraw my custom from LA2 for having the wrong coloured skin by a friendly bouncer...

Posted: **Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:32 pm**

54 - shows my age and nothing else.

Where's Scunthorpe Baths?

Posted: **Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:39 pm**

Scunthorpe, probably.

Posted: **Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:40 pm**

Cath Aubergine wrote:Scunthorpe, probably.

Tarbuck!!

Posted: **Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:25 pm**

26, but only because Bristol and Manchester have so many :)

Posted: **Tue Oct 23, 2018 10:21 am**

captain.riot wrote:If footbal fans can have it, rock fans can have it. 92 key music venues on the mainland. How close are you to joining the club?

Aberdeen ECC
Aberdeen Music Hall
Aberdeen Tunnels
Ashton Under Lyme Wychwood
Bath Moles Club
Birmingham Academy
Birmingham Barfly
Birmingham NEC
Birmingham NIA
Bournemouth BIC
Bradford St Georges Hall
Brighton Concorde 2
Brighton Dome
Brighton Freebutt
Bristol Academy
Bristol Anson Rooms
Bristol Colston Hall
Bristol Fleece
Bristol Louisiana
Bristol Thekla
Cambridge Junction
Cardiff Barfly
Cardiff International Arena
Colchester Arts Centre
Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
Edinburgh RHEC
Exeter Cavern
Glasgow Barrowlands
Glasgow King Tuts
Glasgow SECC
Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Leeds Cockpit
Leeds Met University
Leicester Charlotte
Leicester De Montford Hall
Lincoln Engine Shed
Liverpool Academy
Liverpool Barfly
Liverpool Royal Court
London Astoria
London Brixton Academy
London Camden Barfly
London Cargo
London Earls Court
London Garage
London Hammersmith Apollo
London Islington Academy
London Kings College
London Koko
London Mean Fiddler
London Scala
London Royal Festival Hall
London Shepherds Bush Empire
London Somerset House
London ULU
London Wembley Arena
London 02 Arena
London 93 Feet East
Manchester Academy
Manchester Apollo
Manchester MEN
Manchester Night and Day
Manchester Nynex
Manchester Roadhouse
Manchester The Ritz
Newcastle Arena
Newcastle Northumbria University
Newport Le Pub
Northampton Soundhaus
Northampton Roadmenders
Norwich UEA
Norwich Waterfront
Nottingham Arena
Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Nottingham Rock City
Nottingham Social
Oxford Academy (Zodiac)
Plymouth Pavilions
Portsmouth Pyramids Centre
Portsmouth Wedgwood Rooms
Preston Guildhall
Reading Fez
Sheffield Leadmill
Sheffield Plug
Southampton Guildhall
Southampton Joiners
Stoke Sugar Mill
Warwick Arts Centre
Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Wrexham Central Station
York Fibbers

36 or so. One glaring omission being sorted early next year.

I suspect more than a few of these have gone the way of all things, and pretty much all the Liverpool venues have changed their name at least twice.

I do take issue with a couple of venues on the list...
The Cockpit Main Room was shit, the middle room wasn't much better. Upstairs could be good though.
Plymouth Pavilions? Was the Captain on hard drugs?

Posted: **Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:13 am**

Blackout wrote:56 - or 57 if you take into account that Manchester Nynex and Manchester MEN are actually the same place.

68 / 69 now. Looking back, he may have meant GMex (AKA Manchester Central, exhibition centre occasionally used as actually very good for the size 8000-ish capacity live venue from the late 80s until about 2010) instead of Nynex which was the original sponsor / name of Manchester (no longer MEN) Arena in the 90s. I still have no idea what Edinburgh RHEC is. Been to a massive number of new and new-to-me venues in the intervening 11 years, but that list was already slightly Old Rock Haunts Canon even in 2007. Finally got to Barrowland in 2012 and it still doesn't have an S on the end.

Posted: **Tue Oct 23, 2018 12:45 pm**

I sorely miss The Freebutt in Brighton, as do many.

Posted: **Tue Oct 23, 2018 2:29 pm**

Blackout wrote: I still have no idea what Edinburgh RHEC is.

I did a Google - it is (or more likely was) the Ingliston Royal Highland Exhibition Centre. Bowie played there in 1990, and it must have been a good one to make the Captain's list.

I vote to strike Plymouth Pavilions from the list (really, it's nowt special, even if I did see a fantastic performance from Bjork there) and have it replaced by Hebden Bridge Trades Club.

Posted: **Tue Oct 23, 2018 9:23 pm**

Somehow I've been to almost 40 of those (I was thinking around 10 would be likely), though a fair chunk are in Manchester and London.

Stoke Sugarmill was previously The Stage if that helps anyone.

Posted: **Fri Oct 26, 2018 10:29 am**

As someone who considers themselves an occasional gig goer I'm amazed to have reached 23 on that list with non-gig attendance at 2 more and a couple of possible for having gone to while they were called something else.

Posted: **Fri Oct 26, 2018 12:17 pm**

Visited 21 of those as a punter and played at 3 of them (Brighton's Freebutt and Concorde plus London Mean Fiddler).

Posted: **Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:19 pm**

I wonder who has played at most? I'd imagine someone from the 90s who had a steady-ish rise to arena level like the Manics or Feeder perhaps.

I've played at two of them - The Sugarmill and Manchester Roadhouse. Dublin Castle would be another iconic one but it's not on the list.

Posted: **Mon Nov 05, 2018 9:57 am**

30, if I'm allowed the GMex... I suspect Mr. Den* is in the 92 club : )

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